Unite for Literacy is a project that provides online books that include audio in multiple languages and ASL videos, celebrating different cultures and providing language support for English Language Learners. Wonderful project!
This is a beautifully designed resource for learning English through the learner's native language. Because the resources teach the same English, it is ideal for using with English classes with learners from all over the world. The flash resources are great and the lessons are arranged in categories.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language
This is an outstanding site for differentiating reading levels of curriculum text!!!! Make sure you do the demo and look at their new YouTube video. Easy to use!
You type in Hmong text, and it reads it for you. Helpful for those of us practicing Hmong. It is also used by people who speak Hmong learning to read and write - as well as with students. It can be helpful as a spell-checker, too. So many options.
Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
This is a useful news site which provides the same news story written at three different levels of English, making it a wonderful tool for ESL classes and differentiating for different age groups.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language
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